Waits For Insurance Authorization For Psychiatric Admissions Wastes ER Physician Time

ERs Have Become De Facto Psych Wards.  Science Daily.  April 24, 2013.

Comment from a senior author illustrates the problem:  "An emergency department is just about the worst place for a psychiatric patient to wait for an inpatient bed, and yet that is exactly what the pre-authorization process forces on millions of these vulnerable people."